SD-8: Venditto Regains Lead

From the Morning Memo:

Incumbent Sen. Michael Venditto regained a narrow advantage in the 8th district ballot counting process on Tuesday as Democrats accused Republicans of “walking away” from counting the final 300 or so ballots in Democratic friendly election districts.

Democrats are hopeful they could regain the lead in the narrow contest when counting resumes later today.

Nearly a month after Election Day, Venditto leads Democrat John Brooks by 19 votes including the Election Day count.

Republicans have objected to more than 600 ballots, while Democrats have objected to more than 300.

The race on Long Island remains too close to call, but Republicans are likely to retain a working majority in the state Senate with a western New York seat flipping to the GOP column and Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder announcing his intention to once again align with their conference.

This entry was posted by Nick Reisman on November 30, 2016 at 6:15 am, and is filed under State Senate. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Phil

Hold on MIchael, you’re almost there.

orange county

A 19 vote lead with 900 disputed ballots? he may get there but not for quite a while yet. The courts will settle this one…… eventually.

Phil

And in the end this race is also meaningless as the state senate will have a Republican majority come January with or without this seat.
Where’s bounds anyway? Too ashamed to show his face on here because he was soooo wrong.